If the internet regresses into little sites and social media becomes a ghost town of bots and malicious state actors, Then own your own content For instance, nikatine.com/blog

Gonna be leaving bluesky, and social media in general. Mutuals: if you wanna have a way to stay in touch DM me and we can exchange discord handles. No pressure to actually chat in that situation but it would be nice to have the option.

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

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wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

Its crazy that a decent answer to “why is trans healthcare behind a multiple century waiting list specifically in Scotland“ is that JKR lives there

hey I could have sworn some demographic of people have been warning for the longest time that the anti-trans backlash would inevitably grow into a reinforcement of gender roles and an attempt to roll back all social progress

Changed my password and daddy corporation says I'm *allowed* to exist online now, until I use my VPN again I guess. Fuck Reddit

i love how instead of just building a place for people to interact every one of these intellectually stunted coders thinks they're on some divine mission to shape human behavior

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10. Windows 7 use is surging 5x now. AI is product poison.

genuinely wild to see the founders of the website that was founded because the previous website's owner wanted to be a poster jump into the driver's seat, floor that pedal, and point their car down that exact same road

"You must dox yourself to use the internet" is dystopia shit, and everybody's just going along with it.

Banned from reddit for using a VPN It's starting...

ICE reportedly opened fire on rapid responders on the southwest side this afternoon. There are *very few* details on this available at this time. Treat all rumors with caution until verified. This Sun-Times article cites a DHS statement that should be treated, as always, with extreme skepticism:

and hey on the topic of ID laws do you really trust Bluesky, whose admin and c-suites physically cannot stop themselves from posting-through-it, to be able to hold onto your fucking govt ID and not leak it in a data breach like Discord? these policies suck, they are dangerous, call your reps

Here’s a thing I’ll add, as someone who’s been there: if you’re the CEO of a platform with millions of users, you don’t get to have as much fun on that platform, period. And your job is to eat shit every time a legitimate critique of policy comes up. That’s the gig. Don’t sign up if you aren’t game.

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Gonna be leaving bluesky, and social media in general. Mutuals: if you wanna have a way to stay in touch DM me and we can exchange discord handles. No pressure to actually chat in that situation but it would be nice to have the option.

If you hide your gender identity to fit in, never feel like you've betrayed yourself🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 It's proof that you have a beautiful and kind heart. Chiitan will continue to send out messages until the world becomes a place where you can live with confidence and be yourself.

"An officer-involved suplex occurred this afternoon"

I'm serious email your representatives and link this article RIGHT NOW tell them this shit sucks and is going to put everyone's ID/data at risk to hackers online. the proof is right here US- www.congress.gov/members/find... EU- www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home CA- www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

Eh, it’s almost like decentralization, as spun by tech gentry, has always been about abdicating the already minimal protections our society obliged those with capital to adhere to, by shifting the responsibility for them onto the individual, who lack the systemic tools the gentry control. 3/3

But I’m gonna be honest, I really feel like it’s something as simple as, these folks are capitalists. They have the power, the money, the assets, and therefore must be obeyed. To them, we’re the broken cog gumming up the perfect hierarchy and market they control. 2/3

This, I've been on protests where old middle class folk try to appeal to the pigs "you're better than this" "This isn't what you signed up for" etc I always tell them, and the pigs, that actually, this is EXACTLY what they signed up for and LOVE every second of knocking us about and arresting us

A few years ago I tried to explain to some cis folks in the US that the waiting list for a first appointment in the GIC system was over two decades long, and was told I was exaggerating things. Turns out I was being overly optimistic by an order of magnitude. This is stochastic genocide.

People out here sucking Satan's cock and justifying it by saying their mouth is a decentralized network

The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions.

I GOT BANNED FROM TWITCH? WHA HAPPENED?! SORTA KINDA LEAVING BLUESKY (AGAIN LOL) JAY CRASH OUT AND MORE LIVE NOW! twitch.tv/acvalens

Love how transfems seem to come in two flavors: Extremely sexual, actually been ace this whole time Extremely uninterested in sex, actually been dissociating dysphorically this whole time I imagine them meeting in the middle and high fiving

looking into the article, important part to it is this was initiated by italian unions, making it possible to organize such action at all. which reinforces for what and why such union restrictions exist in america. keeping labor down doesn't just generate wealth, it also suppresses other movements.

this post is evergreen

Bit wants breakfast right nyaaaaooowww

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

The people who run Bluesky saw an endless meadow completely strewn with rakes and decided hey, let’s step on every single one

The helicopters are still buzzing around my neighborhood, trying desperately to instill terror. This invasion sucks, and it's only going to get worse.

They're just fucking attacking harmless civilians. Trying to instill terror with acts of violence and brutality. They want a world where no one questions their absolute power, and they're never going to get that here.

Wellness culture feeds directly into eugenics. Eugenics feeds directly into fascism. This is nothing new, and it’s why disabled people have been screaming for solidarity for years. We saw this coming. We know it’s going to get worse. Refuse to leave vulnerable people by the wayside.

ok so the cost of living in america and western europe is too high and employers don't want to pay it. but they also want to raise prices of all consumer goods untiil nobody can afford them. what happens next may shock you

the CEO of this web site has all the PR skills I would expect from a Matt Yglesias follower who posts about how much she loves brain-rotting generative AI

i’m launching a new social media platform where the founders disappoint you immediately, before you get too invested. a real timesaver

I just think it's really interesting for the people who run this website to be speedrunning the exact same decisions that ruined twitter and caused this website to exist!

As leftists in this current political climate, we should support national liberation and full on succession and separatism from the US government. It is illegitimate. They want to control you and exploit you.

yeah this shit isn't even funny anymore. tech bros have no humanity for people begging for help during a genocide because to them it's just "spam". people are nothing but numbers and code to them and their humanity is locked behind "but it's against TOS omegalul omegalul". disgusting.

they were always aligned with the right-wingers, they just decided to obscure it for a while because they knew it would hamper the platform’s growth

If the subject often finds themselves thinking about things in the background during trance, you just have to be conscious of that, wrangle it up, and try getting them to consciously think about things you *want* them to think~ (1/2)

I find this done best by constantly reminding the subject of what it is they should be thinking of. Force them to consciously put effort into thinking about one certain thing, and keep pulling them back there, so that they don't get distracted (2/2)